The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-08-26

The following is the proposition
made by II. w. Ashley to the city for
the location of the T. A. A. & N. M.
r.. r. car shops in this city:
TOLEDO, Ohio, August 18Th, 1887.
~ G. PAYNE, ESQ,
Owosso, Mich:
have received copy of notice OF a
public meeting to be held in your city to.
morrow, Friday evening, the 10Th inst.
understand that your committee, with
whom / had conference some two
weeks ago, propose to present at this
public meeting the conditions and stipula-
lions which this company will exact and
offer, provided its shops and repair works
are located in your city.
/ wish to avoid the possibility Of any
misunderstanding between this company
and your electors as to these terms and
conditions
If these works are located in your city
the company will require the transfer, free
and unincnmbered, land to the amount of
fifteen or twenty acres and the payment
of twenty-five thousand dollars in money.
If these conditions are complied with
the company will locate and maintain per-
petually its principal shops for the repairs
of its engines, cars and road tools in your
city.
The officers of the company will reserve
the right TO select the site of these works,
regardless of any local prejudices that may
exist among your citizens. This property
will be selected with the view of giving
the company the best and most economical
means of operating its works The exact
Ia ..<l. ~ ko
TO have for these purposes, cannot be stat
ed until the site is selected, inasmuch as
the location CT the buildings and the
amount of ground necessary therefor will
depend, in great measure, upon the
general contour of the land. We shall
not, however, demand or ask your citizens
TO secure property which is OF unusual
yalue, on account of its location for BUSH
ness purposes, nor any land which by rea-
son of the present Improvements thereon
would be more expensive than the land
which usually lies adjacent to city the
size of 0wosso.
Further the company will require
that twenty-five thousand dollars in money
be deposited in the hands of trustees,
subject to he paid out under the provisions
of a contract hereafter 10 be made between
the authorities OF your village and those
OF this company, in thu event that. your
citizens elect W enter into this arrange
ment
wish it distinctly understood that the
company does not propose to handle any
tonds, or securities Of any kind, or 10 have
anything TO do, or any knowledge OF the
manner in which the money which it is
proposed TO give 10 this company for this
pJirpoee, is raised.
These are the terms and conditions
which the company damand as condi.
ton to the location Of its principal shops
:. in your city.
Ii these conditions are complied with
The company proposes TO locate its princi-
pal repair and machine shops in your city.
These shops will consist OF an engine
house, machine shop, Car shop and
paint shop. The engine house Will prob
ably be built with five stalls, on plan
which will permit the company to in.
crease IL to twenty stalls Tie machine
shops will be OF size which will permit US
TO rebuild three or four engines at one
time and will contain the necessary ma.
chinery to maintain the fifty or more en-
gines which will be in the service Of the
road and its branches. The car shop will
be constructed in such manner as will per.
NIT the repairs of cars indoors and will
contain necessary machinery for this pur-
pose. The paint shop will be of size
which will permit the painting sof two or
more passenger cars at one time, and will
contain no machinery of any kind. The
engine house and machine shop will be of
brick; the car shop and paint shop will
probably be frame structures. 3i4
From this description you will uuder-
stand about the nature OF the structures
which'the company considers necessary
Tor itspresent demands. These buildings
as the Ines q the company are extend
property Of the company, become older